Sweets à la card

The Dusci Pastry Shop in Udine is a great place to indulge your taste buds and enjoy the popular, peasant, and rural traditions of Friuli Venezia Giulia. In particular, you can taste a biscuit that will take you back in time thanks to its ingredients: the dough is made with "Blave di Mortean" polenta flour. This special ingredient was used in the past to make bread, which is called "pan" in the Friulian language. The biscuits are perfected and enriched with figs and walnuts, or "fics e coculis." These ingredients were very common in the old days and were cultivated in the courtyards of every household. At the Dusci Pastry Shop, our traditional local culture is preserved and enhanced with the creation of delicious and unique specialties.

The Ferrarese Pastry Shop in Gemona del Friuli has been making strudel with local Friulian apple varieties such as Ruggine Dorata, Striata Dolce, Blacon, Zeuka, and Gialla di Priuso for 100 years, from one generation to the next. Visit the cosy new pastry shop and discover the indigenous apple varieties of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Have you ever heard of Cjapiei Di Predi? It is a short pastry made with "floc di flor" flour, grown and milled in the town of Gemona del Friuli. The filling, as simple as it is delicious, is made with local apples, sugar, custard, macaroon crumbs, and grated lemon zest. Each Cjapiei Di Predi is a small masterpiece of taste that embodies the history and tradition of Friulian confectionery. A simple yet delicious sweet that will seduce and captivate your taste buds every time you have one.

Did you know that saffron is also cultivated in Friuli Venezia Giulia? A small flower, highly prized in the kitchen and even in desserts, is the source of the Saffron Mignon, a delicious treat created by the Castellarin Pastry Shop in Udine in collaboration with the Driussi farm, which cultivates saffron in Friuli Venezia Giulia. You will have the pleasure of tasting this little delicacy composed of a crumbly vanilla shortbread tartlet, filled with delicious diced apples and garnished with saffron cream.

Have you ever tasted Presnitz? It is a soft sweet with a fragrant filling of dried fruit and Marsala wine in a rolled puff pastry. It is a delicacy with a distinctly Central European flavour, well representing at once the crossroads of cultures and people embodied in the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia as well as Trieste and its port. The Presnitz should never be rolled up with the dough, but should form a compact filling, similar to a soft marzipan in the shape of a sausage, which is then delicately wrapped in a very thin sheet of puff pastry.

Another product not to be missed is the "Oro Del Carso" biscuit, a delicious treat enriched with wild fennel flowers, a typical spice of the territory of the Karst. This ingredient, known as Oro Del Carso, or Karst Gold, gives the biscuit a unique and unmistakable aroma, reminiscent of the scents of the Mediterranean maquis. You can taste this speciality in the town of Savogna d'Isonzo at the Cotič Bakery, which is called Pekarna in Slovenian.

Would you like to discover the secret of the hazelnut ice cream made by L'Angolo Della Dolcezza in the town of San Quirino? All the hazelnuts are 0-kilometre from the orchards of San Quirino and Cordenons, in the province of Pordenone. They are a particular variety, the Tonda Gentile Friulana hazelnut, which is excellent for its sweetness and fragrance. Fabrizio personally selects quality raw ingredients every day in his artisan workshop, sourcing them from local producers and following the rhythm of the seasons. He collaborates with farms in Friuli Venezia Giulia to promote the territory and its 0-kilometre products, as well as with small local businesses.

Dolce Aqvileia is a journey back in time through the flavours of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Inspired by the typical ingredients of Roman times, such as walnuts, spelt, figs, and honey, this sweet is an eternal link between the past and the present. Its texture is truly unique: a soft, creamy heart embraced by a crispy pastry shell, offering an unforgettable taste experience with every bite.
Come and taste it at the Pasticceria Mosaico in Aquileia.

Come and taste just one bite of raspberry sacher, reminiscent of the Central European pastry tradition which is embodied here in Friuli Venezia Giulia. This sweet is made with Visinale wholemeal flour, a soft chocolate cake with an intense but delicate flavour, moist and light, with a rich heart of fresh and slightly tangy filling that fully releases the flavour of its raspberries. Every bite of this sweet cake is a satisfying and gentle taste experience, so you can happily enjoy more than one without feeling guilty.
You can find this delicacy in Prata di Portenone, Porcia and Fiume Veneto.

What makes this biscuit so unique? The combination of flour from ancient grains cultivated by the Orto Felice organic farm in Udine and coffee, which has always been a very symbolic product of Friuli Venezia Giulia. What are you waiting for? Come and have a taste at the Berin Bakery in San Giovanni al Natisone.

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